20/20

  • JAMES BALDWIN Interview : never aired before!

    JAMES BALDWIN Interview : never aired before!

      Back in 1979 Joseph Lovett a very young producer at ABC’s 20/20 Program was assigned to film a  profile on queer author James Baldwin.  It was to tie in with the publication of Baldwin’s nineteenth novel Just Above My Head.  Lovett was very excited to meet one of his heroes: “I had been reading [Baldwin]…